Earlier this week good news came to the Dryden Family. What did we do? We had a slap up meal featuring all our favourite cuisines. Girls had what they like. My beloved had what she liked. I had what I liked. Some might call it indulgence, but to us it was not a regular event, […]
Read More The Deal Is In The MealNot sure if I’ve told you, but recently I started playing squash again. Yeah. I am. Love it too. Playing it with a brother in Derby who really looks out for me, and is a quality hombre. So I’m doing my squash thing and feeling good about doing something relatively physical. Right in the middle […]
Read More Congratulations to the Marathon Man and Expository DiscussionThere is the old television Catchphrase based on the premise that contestants watch an animated enaction of a famous catchphrase and they say what they see. I sat in a church service recently where there was talk about wanting to see the Holy Spirit in action in the lives of people bringing deliverance to support […]
Read More Church Life: Say It and See ItA beautiful scene of what the Lord’s Supper means to me was enacted before me a few years ago. John (not his real name) was high up in the organisation, among the senior management team, he was a good nominal Christian, but had recently appreciated how shallow his faith was and wanted to deepen it. […]
Read More Enjoying The Lord’s Supper: The Great EqualiserI was bound to write this blog entry! (Let me get that out of my system from now.) A good friend of mine shared something in a message about a trend seen in the experience of members of church in a locality. They seemed to shift away from seeing their homes as centres for hospitality […]
Read More What Are You Bound By?Life. I get it. Mortgage or rent to be paid. That means you need a decent paying job that will eat up a lot of the hours in the week. That doesn’t leave time for much else on a week day. By the time the weekend comes around, we’re just about able to muster the […]
Read More Too BusyWhen she came in, she spoke of how frustrated she was. She spoke of how she felt as though there was nothing stimulating for her and how people would talk about things changing with no sign of actual change taking place. As I heard her, my heart sank. It was an all too familiar story. […]
Read More Gospel Triggers – Communally Looking At Life Through God’s EyesSome church discussions are exasperating. I was sitting through one in particular where the brethren were talking about relationships, marriage and appropriate conduct for couples at various stages of their courtship. What was completely assumed was the definition for the key terms, and the other key concept of what church means. So while various traditional […]
Read More My Definition Is This …There was a large glass plated edifice. On it as written by man was the word ‘CHURCH’. It had been there for many a year and over time little had happened to change it, for it was set by the people who had set it up. It appeared to be the way things would be. […]
Read More Church: A Short VisionA while back, I had a good friend. One of the things about this friend was just the great loyalty and dedication displayed. The servant heart was something that was somewhat taken advantage of by others. She would often be called because people knew she would be available and would help almost at the drop […]
Read More Loving People Because You Love People
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